Archive for November 2010

If I ask myself the question, what can’t I do with my android phone, I have to say, not much. And whatever I can’t do, I expect to be able to do… And in all probability will do soon.

That’s actually an astonishing thought. That a device in my pocket can power pretty much my entire digital life, harnessing the power of the cloud, to serve and feed our modern appetite for instant communication, news, gossip, games, data, heck even controlling things remotely, and all through radio signals which will probably make all of us sick.

But what price is too high to pay for gratification of the senses on this scale?

The point about the cloud combined with always on pleasure to use devices is that it’s finally possible for anyone to make it work. This revolution is like email all over again, but the winners haven’t been decided yet. It could be facebook, but they are consumer and their user group is fickle and free. Google has more aces than anyone, but they don’t know how to do service, they please themselves first. Apple has set the standard, the way they did with personal computing, but you can’t compete with the world, they are already at full stretch.

Rim lost it when the email age was superseded by the mobile social cloud.

Microsoft is desk bound.

Interestingly though, the hub system Microsoft has pioneered, and similarly the widgets of android and amazons kindle point the way, with still serious flaws.

Put the user in charge of their content, their display, make it easy to access any feed beautifully, make it available across platforms, and the swarm of users will make it real.